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To discover what percentage of teenagers believe in telekinesis—the psychic ability to move objects without physically touching them—a recent survey asked a representative sample of teenagers whether they agreed with the following statement: "A person's thoughts can influence the movement of physical objects." But because this statement is particularly ambiguous and is amenable to a naturalistic, uncontroversial interpretation, the survey's responses are also ambiguous.
Summary
The author concludes that responses to the telekinesis survey are ambiguous. As support, she says that the survey’s question was ambiguous and could’ve been interpreted in a naturalistic and uncontroversial way.
Notable Assumptions
The author concludes that the survey responses are ambiguous, but her premises never establish that an ambiguously worded survey question will lead to ambiguous responses. She simply assumes this to be the case.
Her reasoning conforms closely to the statement or proposition that an ambiguous survey question will lead to ambiguous survey results.
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